6 February 2024
12.00 – 13.30
NDH0020
University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS
ART TALKS is a series of free talks from artists, curators, and creatives, programmed by MA Fine Art at the University of Lincoln and open to all staff, students UOL, and members of the public. All Welcome.
Ben Fitton is an artist and educator. His artworks use performative interventions, text, and impermanent forms of public address to contribute to debates around the politics of presentation, participation and spectatorship. These works often appropriate the strategies and rhetoric of site-specificity to construct situations in which the relationship between the work and its primary audience is brought into question, and in which an assertive physicality of structure or text is played off against an apparent ambiguity or excess of authorial intention.
He has shown extensively in the United Kingdom and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Site Gallery, Sheffield; Floating I.P., Manchester; The Economist Plaza, redux, IBID.Projects, Balfron Tower and LUNGLEY Gallery, London. He has also collaborated with Dylan Shipton on a series of temporary structures in the public realm temporary structures in the public realm,
including GUNSGOOFFTHEMSELVES for Töne 2014, Chatham; Monument to the Excluded Middle for HOUSE 2013, Brighton; and The History Still to be Made Shows Itself (2012) & The Overbearing Mother (2011) for outdoor sites in St. Leonard’s-on-Sea. He teaches on the Art Programme at Chelsea College of Arts.
